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Where will many Google employees be five years from now? How many will be running their own technology companies, and pursuing their own projects? How many will be investing in other companies, and helping to drive innovation? Georges Harik was one of Google’s first 10 employees, the Director of Googlettes and a Distinguished Engineer at … Read more Innovation After Google?

Along with news of Microsoft’s Updated Live Search Engine, discussed at Microsoft’s Searchification Day, comes some other news from the Live.com camp. One of the founders of the Microsoft Search Labs (a research and development group within the Windows Live Search team), Erik Selberg, is leaving Microsoft to join Amazon.com. With my last post on … Read more Erik Selberg Leaves Microsoft Live, Joins Amazon

Technologist, author, blogger, and accessibility expert Mark Pilgrim announced yesterday that he will be joining Google. One of my longtime favorite sites from Mark Pilgrim is Dive Into Accessibility (no longer available), which provides a 30 day, step-by-step approach to making web sites more accessible to visitors and to search engines. The site was written … Read more Mark Pilgrim to Join Google

Some of Google’s past hires involve people who are pretty well known in the open source and open standards worlds. Last week, Kevin Marks noted on his blog that he had recently become Begoogled, and is now a software engineer at Google. He was a principal engineer for Technorati, after working for Apple and the … Read more Google Open Source and Open Standards

Steve Bryant broke the news yesterday that Google has just hired AOL’s top instant messaging developer, Justin Uberti. (Hat tip to Barry Schwartz). Steve tells us that Justin was involved in AOL’s Open AIM Initiative. He also notes that this hiring is interesting in light of a December agreement between AOL and Google to have … Read more AOL Top AIM Developer Joins Google